Re: Updates to Italian language

>>>>>>>>>> Oh my, I see you have also changed it to UTF-8.  This
>>>>>>>>>> is lovely! Thank you.  I will update the SquirrelMail
>>>>>>>>>> core to match.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Part of the problem here is that all the plugin
>>>>>>>>> translations for Italian are still in ISO-8859.  They need
>>>>>>>>> to match the main SquirrelMail translation.  Here is the
>>>>>>>>> list of translated  plugins:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> abook_import_export.po calendar.po html_mail.po
>>>>>>>>> newuser_wiz.po vacation_local.po archive_mail.po
>>>>>>>>> compatibility.po multilogin.po
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> For the list's benefit, Andrea has since sent an offlist
>>>>>>>> tarball of all these files changed to UTF (Andrea, I don't
>>>>>>>> need the .mo files, thanks) and completed 100% of the main
>>>>>>>> SquirrelMail
>>>>>>>> translations. Nice work!  However, can you please re-check
>>>>>>>> the encoding of the files for compatibility, html_mail,
>>>>>>>> multilogin and newuser_wiz?  They look to be US-ASCII, not
>>>>>>>> UTF-8.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Now the files shoud be fine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Indeed they are!  Thank you so much!  But one more thing -
>>>>>> oops!  I was about to commit these and I noticed (my mistake)
>>>>>> that there are a series of translations in a "plugins"
>>>>>> subdirectory too.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> abook_group.po address_add.po amavisnewsql.po avelsieve.po
>>>>>> bayesspam.po change_ldappass.po gpg.po quota_usage.po
>>>>>> twc_weather.po view_as_html.po
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you mind changing those, too?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks VERY MUCH.
>>>>>
>>>>> Uh-oh.  :-)  I found more:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail/trunk
>>>>> /local es/help/it_IT/
>>>>
>>>> In addition, I am seeing an unusual character at the beginning of
>>>> all files, which corrupts them.
>>>>
>>>> In vi, it shows as <feff>.  Looking at the file in a hex editor,
>>>> the first few characters look like any other file, (ff fe 00 20 00
>>>> 23, etc). I
>>>> don't have time to dig more, but it's probably an issue in your
>>>> environment and the application you use to save or zip up (maybe
>>>> try tar instead) the files.  Please see if you can have a look.  The
>>>> translations are unfortunately not usable as is.
>>>
>>> Are you just converting the existing Italian translations to UTF-8 or
>>> are you also reviewing the actual translations, i.e. "msgstr"? If the
>>> former I can do that with a script and commit it (won't take long).
>>> You only
>>> have to do manual labour it you're actually re-checking the
>>> translations.
>>
>> I've converted the entire Italian translation to UTF-8 in the
>> repository.
>
> Without waiting for an answer to your last email?  Come on...

You're right. My bad. Converting it all to UTF-8 is just a 10 minute job,
so I'd hate to see manual labour going into this. Still, I should have
waited with the commit.

>> All that's needed now is to update HEAD for Italian with any
>> translations which are re-translated, i.e. where the strings in Italian
>> have been modified. If the strings in Italian aren't modified, don't
>> bother to convert it to UTF-8 - that's already done.
>>
>> Paul, when committing Italian to the repository, you only have to do it
>> to HEAD ("trunk/locales/").
>
> The only place I was planning to.
>
> Note that there may be another two languages getting checked in very
> very soon (see list archives), which would be nice if we could place into
> the 1.4.18 locales release.

Fine by me.

>> When HEAD is as wanted, I'll branch it back to
>> 1.4.18. If the translation "squirrelmail.po" sent by Andrea is for
>> 1.4.18, merge it with HEAD and commit it to HEAD.
>>
>> Sorry if I messed things up for you.
>
> <gripe>I appreciate it, but I think this was out of line.  I had some
> files ready to commit and work in progress.  You could either have
> participated earlier in this thread or waited for a response to your last
> email before jumping in on this.</gripe>

Yes, I could. My bad again. Sorry.

> I'll go and blow away what I was working on and hope that it all
> amounts to the same changes anyway.
>
> Andrea, please take note - I think you'll only want to make sure you
> send the correctly encoded squirrelmail.po which I think is the only thing
> you've been changing the strings for.

Yes, only files where the strings in Italian have been updated are needed.

Sincerely,
Fredrik

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